There the World Health Organization goes again:
Millions of Asians could face poverty, disease, and hunger as a result of rising temperatures and increased rainfall expected to hit hardest poor countries, the World Health Organization warned Monday.
Malaria, diarrhea, malnutrition and floods cause an estimated 150,000 deaths annually, with Asia accounting for more than half, said regional WHO Director Shigeru Omi.
Guys, please, let's stay focused on the important question here: how much is a cap-and-trade system going to cost?
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Russ Posted 4:14 am
07 Apr 2008
Yes, I too find it edifying to watch the fat Americans squabble over their wretched nickels and dimes while untold thousands wither and die.
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Pangolin Posted 7:14 am
07 Apr 2008
The duck represents the duck/rice/fish ecosystem that produces far more useful calories per acre than the 20 acre rice deserts that I am familiar with. It requires close supervision by the farmer but not so much work as you would think. Other symbiotic crop cycles have been demonstrated in most cropping cycles but the knowledge isn't spread or demonstrated where the global equivalent of Joe Sixpack can observe them in operation.
The charcoal is to be powdered and spread on a test plot that the farmer can watch for a few years. The promise of a biochar agricultural system is that it can simultaneously reduce input costs for local farmers and increase crop health and outputs. It may not be Terra Preta but it will make a serious dent on his energy return on investment at the one-peasant-with-a-hoe level. Oh, and it's also our only hope of sequestering those extra gigatons of carbon in the atmosphere short of the mythical, magical, technofix.
Time is the most crucial factor. Time to understand what's happening to crop cycles, time to watch a neighbor try a permaculture plot in the corner of his land and then try it himself. Time to work with what he has rather than whatever technical magic that we aren't going to give him while our economy staggers like a drunk who's slugged down some methanol. Time is what we don't have as everything is happening "faster than expected."
The only thing to do is to keep bailing until after we're sunk.
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